Over three dam years ago, I bought a nice wide 55" inch TV. This weekend I finally got around to getting a HD Sat receiver. Holy crap. What was I waiting for? You have not lived if you are a FB fan if you have not seen a game like this. It is amazing. Now if they could just get more broadcasts in HD then I could really be happy.

 

Yea HD is awesome.My stepson has the 60 inch Sony Wega thats unbelievable.

 

yup we have a 60" sony flat screen with HD... kicks a$$

 

When my car is paid off next year I plan on buying this: Sony KD34XBR960
This model is only capable of 1080i resolution. Hopefully the next one will be 1080p capable. There is no doubt HD is the way to go. I have seen it, and I want it, but all in good time.

Anyone looking to get a new tv ,the absolute best picture possible, this television pretty much sets the standard.

 

This whole resolution thing is confusing. My TV will go 1080 but won't pick up anything in 720 (or whatever it is), but you can watch it in 480.

One of the reasons why I chose my TV is becuase it is one of the rare ones that has a matte screen. As a result, there is no glare and it looks just like a movie theater screen.

 

We have it too on our 51 inch. Its sweet to watch the discovery channel stuff in hd too.

 

how much hp does HD add? :/

 

Standard 480-line NTSC TV broadcasts (incl. cable television), VCR, DVD and laserdisc signals are sent in an "Interlaced Scan" format. A TV screen first draws the image's odd lines, one at a time sequentially from top to bottom (which takes 1/60 of a second), and then fills in the even lines (taking another 1/60 of a second). That is, the full picture (top to bottom) is first drawn with half its information hollowed out, and then the other half is filled in -- the entire process taking 1/30 of a second.

A newer and superior scanning method called "Progressive" permits the entire picture to be drawn sequentially from top to bottom without the odd/even interlacing. Some newer DVD players now have outputs for both an interlaced and progressive scan image. And HDTV signals are now being broadcast in both progressive and interlaced formats: 720p (720 lines of resolution in progressive scan format) and 1080i (interlaced) and now 1080p (progressive).

 

Phew...there is a lot to this. I keep having to change my box configeration to watch some of the channels.

 

Heck, I don't know. Remember it is over three years old, so I know it is not plasma or liquid screen. They were over $10k back then and I am too much a cheap bastard to spend that kind og dough on a TV. For $10k, I would expect personal services from the actresses for that kind of money.

But I can say that the picture is terrific. I also changed a setting on my receiver to only view in either 480 or 1080. My TV won't seem to allow me to watch anything in 720. Now that I have that fixed, I can see all the channels w/o having to switch everything back and forth.

 

lol see this is why you do like i did and just get an ATI video card and you can watch tv on your computer, then (i don;t have the HD service) if you wanted you could go ahead and watch HD on your computer...1600 x 1200